Re: The following packages have been kept back

open synaptic
left click all
F6
down arrow
firmware-linux-nonfree
right click        firmware-linux-nonfree
choose properties
let us know what it says
esc
firmware-atheros
right click  firmware-atheros
properties
report back to us


Ciao!
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---- Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> wrote: 

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Latest Debian 8 (will go to 9 soon) on Acer Aspire E15

     root@debbie:/home/dave# apt-get upgrade
     Reading package lists... Done
     Building dependency tree
     Reading state information... Done
     Calculating upgrade... Done
     The following packages have been kept back:
       firmware-linux-nonfree
     The following packages will be upgraded:
       firmware-atheros
     1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

What on earth does that mean?  I have "non-free" listed in sources.list
(which this list told me to do).

-- Dave